HELP! Power Steering Replaced/Anyone Else Had Issues With Theirs??
08-15-2010 | 06:25 PM
#31
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Joined: 09-10-2009
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From: Durham
Okay well I went ahead and installed it myself. Took less than an hour for me and that was with the wife and kids riding bikes and playing outside so I had interruptions.
The hardest part is just reaching everything. I took full pictures of the procedure and I have the specs for the other tools needed. I will make a separate post later after the kids go to bed.
Nice doing something that saves money! Thanks ChevyMgr for your pictures and instructions...They were very helpful.
The hardest part is just reaching everything. I took full pictures of the procedure and I have the specs for the other tools needed. I will make a separate post later after the kids go to bed.
Nice doing something that saves money! Thanks ChevyMgr for your pictures and instructions...They were very helpful.
01-12-2016 | 02:10 PM
#32
Joined: 01-12-2016
Posts: 1
From: Nebraska
Warranty Extended
Hi Everyone,
The hubby & I were so upset and actually a little puzzled....during the holiday, we kept having issues with our HHR LS '06, our power steering light would come on while driving, sometimes it was just when backing out of a drive, etc., after it happened a second time (we were hoping it was a glitch of some kind with the freezing cold temps we were having here in Ohio at the time!!), we took it in to our mechanic, well, he said he never had to ever replace, the power steering components (or mechanism), in an HHR, and sounded very uncomfortable with doing it, for us, so we sadly had to take it to our dealer where we purchased it used, back in August of '08~ they did confirm that the components of some kind (sorry, with it being the holidays I can't completely remember, but will look for our paperwork if it helps lol!), for the power steering, needed to be replaced, and it would cost $440 to replace/put in ~ needless to say, I nearly lost it
~ LOL!
We had another "garage" (car repair) place, we often go to, give us an estimate on the same item/labor costs, etc., and they were only about $25 cheaper, which with it being, literally four days before Christmas (great timing to say the least!!), and considering it was already at the dealership, we decided to just have the dealership, repair it at that time....sad I know...but with how high the repair cost already was, we just let it go
What has us upset (besides the high cost of repair), is our HHR LS '06 has just about 63,000 miles, on it ~ is it actually TYPICAL (!!) for the power steering to GO BAD, with that amount of miles?? I could see perhaps if it was at 80,000, or more, but truly I can't believe it. Our dealer actually had the nerve to say (when I questioned this), that 63,000 miles was indeed high enough mileage for such a repair....I'm stunned
Does anyone know if there has been any recall to do with the HHR LS (year '06) and it's power steering? Also, not sure if it was something that we could have possibly, found, on eBay ~ but again, with it literally being SO close to Christmas, day, just couldn't try for an auction ~ and we're not at *all* handy (LOL!) with replacing parts in our cars sadly
Thanks in advance for any help!!
The hubby & I were so upset and actually a little puzzled....during the holiday, we kept having issues with our HHR LS '06, our power steering light would come on while driving, sometimes it was just when backing out of a drive, etc., after it happened a second time (we were hoping it was a glitch of some kind with the freezing cold temps we were having here in Ohio at the time!!), we took it in to our mechanic, well, he said he never had to ever replace, the power steering components (or mechanism), in an HHR, and sounded very uncomfortable with doing it, for us, so we sadly had to take it to our dealer where we purchased it used, back in August of '08~ they did confirm that the components of some kind (sorry, with it being the holidays I can't completely remember, but will look for our paperwork if it helps lol!), for the power steering, needed to be replaced, and it would cost $440 to replace/put in ~ needless to say, I nearly lost it
~ LOL! We had another "garage" (car repair) place, we often go to, give us an estimate on the same item/labor costs, etc., and they were only about $25 cheaper, which with it being, literally four days before Christmas (great timing to say the least!!), and considering it was already at the dealership, we decided to just have the dealership, repair it at that time....sad I know...but with how high the repair cost already was, we just let it go
What has us upset (besides the high cost of repair), is our HHR LS '06 has just about 63,000 miles, on it ~ is it actually TYPICAL (!!) for the power steering to GO BAD, with that amount of miles?? I could see perhaps if it was at 80,000, or more, but truly I can't believe it. Our dealer actually had the nerve to say (when I questioned this), that 63,000 miles was indeed high enough mileage for such a repair....I'm stunned
Does anyone know if there has been any recall to do with the HHR LS (year '06) and it's power steering? Also, not sure if it was something that we could have possibly, found, on eBay ~ but again, with it literally being SO close to Christmas, day, just couldn't try for an auction ~ and we're not at *all* handy (LOL!) with replacing parts in our cars sadly Thanks in advance for any help!!
01-12-2016 | 03:50 PM
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